Storing Breast Milk; Storing Breast Milk In A Medela Cooler Bag - Medela Sonata Double Pump Kit Mode D'emploi

9. Storing Breast Milk

Storing Breast Milk in a Medela Cooler Bag

• Your Medela cooler bag requires one Medela frozen contoured ice pack. Up to four 5 oz.
bottles of breast milk will stay cool for up to 10 hours in a room temperature environment
inside your pump bag. Up to four 5oz bottles of breast milk will stay cool for up to 8 hours
in a room temperature environment, inside the cooler, stored outside of the pump bag.
• As soon as you are finished pumping, place the breast milk bottle or breast milk storage
bag in the cooler bag with the ice pack.
• Transfer breast milk bottles or breast milk storage bags to the refrigerator or freezer once
you are home.
Freshly Expressed Breast Milk Storage Guidelines
Room
Temperature
4–6 hours
at 66–78 °F
(19–26 °C)
References: www.medela.ca/breastfeeding
Note
If ice pack is frozen solid, it will safely cool your breast milk for up to 10 hours in a room
temperature environment inside your pump bag.
(For Healthy Term Babies)
Cooler with
Refrigerator
Ice Pack
3–8 days
24 hours
at 39 °F
at 59 °F
or lower
(15 °C)
(4 °C)
Questions? 1-800-435-8316 | info@medela.ca
Freezer
6–12
months
0– - 4 °F
(-18– - 20 °C)
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